The Dusty Bookcase

'That Only a Mother' The Best of Judith Merril Judith Merril New York: Warner, 1976 254 pages The Best of Judith Merril  sees an an...

One Canadian man recommends ten unjustly neglected novels by ten Canadian women: The Midnight Queen May Agnes Fleming 1863 A got...

Not Wives and Lovers , the best novel. Not Frustration , the worst. Not Dan Hill's self-flagellating  Comeback , the strangest. No, ...

I finished reading my last book of the year yesterday afternoon; there is no way the I'll reach the end of the next before January. ...

A not-so-brief follow-up to last week's post on Judith Merril's Shadow on the Hearth . "The title of my book had been chos...

Shadow on the Hearth Judith Merril New York: Doubleday, 1950 Westchester housewife Gladys Mitchell is leading the life of June Cleave...